Yesterday, 03:43 PM
The following is taken from The Recusant, Issue #65 - Epiphany 2026:
Divine Providence leads a priest out of the Fake Resistance to the real thing, Deo Gratias!
Dear Editor,
My name is Rev. Fr Joseph Onuorah. I am a Nigerian Traditional Latin Mass Priest of SSPX Resistance. I was ordained a Catholic priest in Onitsha Archdiocesan novus ordo diocese in Nigeria on 16th July 2016, the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. It was two years after my ordination that I discovered the Traditional Latin Mass and I wrote to my novus ordo bishop that having discovered this Mass of all time that I would like to join them. He actually did not want me to join Traditional Latin Mass because according to him and the diocesan Chancellor, Traditional Latin Mass groups have splinter units and they are outside the Church according to the excommunication of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre by Pope John Paul II after the 1988 consecration of 4 bishops. However I insisted in joining Traditional Latin Mass group and he said that he gave me time to think about it and pray over it. I thought about it and prayed over it before the Blessed Sacrament, saying my Rosaries and Masses and after about 40 days prayers, my heart was still at peace remaining with Traditional Latin Mass group. So I officially left novus ordo in December 2018 and in June 2019 they published my name in the diocesan newspaper and some national dailies.
Meanwhile, by that time I did not know the differences between mainstream SSPX, SSPX Resistance/Marian Corps, FSSP, Sedevacantists, etc. In the initial stage I thought that they were all one under the umbrella of Traditional Latin Mass of the Catholic Church. I discovered the differences when I joined SSPX Resistance. I tried to join mainstream SSPX in Nigeria in 2017 but the priest I met told me that they do not accept novus ordo priests as at that time.
Then a priest referred me to SSPX Resistance, and I came in contact with Fr Juan Ortiz and Bishop Williamson. Fr Juan Ortiz lectured me in moral theology and other courses for almost two years. He helped provide the vestments and books for Traditional Latin Mass. After our lectures, he wrote to Bishop Williamson to give me conditional ordination and Bishop Williamson sent me to Bishop Tomas Aquinas de Ferreira in Brazil and I received my conditional ordination on 31st May 2021 at Holy Cross Monastery Brazil. We were three priests who received the conditional ordination but on coming back to Nigeria, one left and went back to novus ordo after about two months. So that is how I remained with Bishop Williamson’s group of SSPX Resistance.
On the issue of the positions of bishop Williamson on the new Mass, Vatican II council, etc, I was totally disappointed when I heard it. It didn’t go down well with me at all. Fr Juan Ortiz had given us many Traditional books including the Biography of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre by Bishop Tissier. I read the Archbishop Lefebvre’s biography, and his stand about the new Mass, the new ordination rites and how all the Sacraments were changed, the essence being removed and not just the accidence, Vatican II council and others major doctrines of the Catholic Church heavily affected, just heart breaking. I have also listened to his conferences and his
stand is very clear and firm. So I am fully standing firmly, shoulder to shoulder with the teachings of our beloved Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre which is the perennial teachings of the Traditional Catholic Church. And that is exactly what I am teaching here in my mission in Nigeria.
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph,
Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam per Mariam
Divine Providence leads a priest out of the Fake Resistance to the real thing, Deo Gratias!
Fr. Joseph Onuorah Joins the Resistance!
Dear Editor,
My name is Rev. Fr Joseph Onuorah. I am a Nigerian Traditional Latin Mass Priest of SSPX Resistance. I was ordained a Catholic priest in Onitsha Archdiocesan novus ordo diocese in Nigeria on 16th July 2016, the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. It was two years after my ordination that I discovered the Traditional Latin Mass and I wrote to my novus ordo bishop that having discovered this Mass of all time that I would like to join them. He actually did not want me to join Traditional Latin Mass because according to him and the diocesan Chancellor, Traditional Latin Mass groups have splinter units and they are outside the Church according to the excommunication of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre by Pope John Paul II after the 1988 consecration of 4 bishops. However I insisted in joining Traditional Latin Mass group and he said that he gave me time to think about it and pray over it. I thought about it and prayed over it before the Blessed Sacrament, saying my Rosaries and Masses and after about 40 days prayers, my heart was still at peace remaining with Traditional Latin Mass group. So I officially left novus ordo in December 2018 and in June 2019 they published my name in the diocesan newspaper and some national dailies.
Meanwhile, by that time I did not know the differences between mainstream SSPX, SSPX Resistance/Marian Corps, FSSP, Sedevacantists, etc. In the initial stage I thought that they were all one under the umbrella of Traditional Latin Mass of the Catholic Church. I discovered the differences when I joined SSPX Resistance. I tried to join mainstream SSPX in Nigeria in 2017 but the priest I met told me that they do not accept novus ordo priests as at that time.
Then a priest referred me to SSPX Resistance, and I came in contact with Fr Juan Ortiz and Bishop Williamson. Fr Juan Ortiz lectured me in moral theology and other courses for almost two years. He helped provide the vestments and books for Traditional Latin Mass. After our lectures, he wrote to Bishop Williamson to give me conditional ordination and Bishop Williamson sent me to Bishop Tomas Aquinas de Ferreira in Brazil and I received my conditional ordination on 31st May 2021 at Holy Cross Monastery Brazil. We were three priests who received the conditional ordination but on coming back to Nigeria, one left and went back to novus ordo after about two months. So that is how I remained with Bishop Williamson’s group of SSPX Resistance.
On the issue of the positions of bishop Williamson on the new Mass, Vatican II council, etc, I was totally disappointed when I heard it. It didn’t go down well with me at all. Fr Juan Ortiz had given us many Traditional books including the Biography of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre by Bishop Tissier. I read the Archbishop Lefebvre’s biography, and his stand about the new Mass, the new ordination rites and how all the Sacraments were changed, the essence being removed and not just the accidence, Vatican II council and others major doctrines of the Catholic Church heavily affected, just heart breaking. I have also listened to his conferences and his
stand is very clear and firm. So I am fully standing firmly, shoulder to shoulder with the teachings of our beloved Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre which is the perennial teachings of the Traditional Catholic Church. And that is exactly what I am teaching here in my mission in Nigeria.
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph,
Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam per Mariam
"So let us be confident, let us not be unprepared, let us not be outflanked, let us be wise, vigilant, fighting against those who are trying to tear the faith out of our souls and morality out of our hearts, so that we may remain Catholics, remain united to the Blessed Virgin Mary, remain united to the Roman Catholic Church, remain faithful children of the Church."- Abp. Lefebvre
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